US Fed News Service, Including US State News back issues from Friday, July 27:
Michgan, New York Inventors Develop Fuel Line Checking Valve
Jul 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 27 -- William L. Villaire of Clio, Mich., Dennis P. McGrath of Ortonville, Mich., John G. Fischer of Goodrich, Mich., and David H. Burke of Victor, N.Y., have developed a fuel line checking valve. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Prior art fuel ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Fuel Vapor Processing Apparatus
Jul 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 27 -- Masao Kano and Noriyasu Amano, both of Gamogori, Japan, Shinsuke Takakura of Kariya, Japan, Sinsuke Kiyomiya of Seto, Japan, and Yuusaku Nishimura of Toyota, Japan, have developed a fuel vapor processing apparatus. An abstract of the invention, released by ...
Woodward Governor Wins $131,512 Contract
Jul 27, 2007 ... MECHANICSBURG, Pa., July 27 -- The U.S. Navy has awarded a $131,512 contract to Woodward Governor Co., Fort Collins, Colo., for display units. The contract was awarded by the Naval Inventory Control Point, Mechanicsburg, Pa. For more information about ...
City Chemical Wins $69,760 Contract
Jul 27, 2007 ... MECHANICSBURG, Pa., July 27 -- The U.S. Navy has awarded a $69,760 contract to City Chemical LLC, West Haven, Conn., for chemicals and chemical products. The contract was awarded by the Naval Inventory Control Point, Mechanicsburg, Pa. For more information about US ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Internal Combustion Engine Fuel Supplying Device
Jul 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 27 -- Susumu Kojima of Susono, Japan, and Motoki Ohtani of Toyota, Japan, have developed a device for fuel supplying in an internal combustion engine. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fuel supplying apparatus of an internal combustion engine ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Optical Writing Apparatus
Jul 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 27 -- Naoichi Ishikawa of Saitama, Japan, has developed an optical-writing apparatus for writing a wide format image. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of light-emitting element array units, a light ...
California Inventors Develop Load Aware Optimization Method
Jul 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 27 -- James W. Shearer of San Francisco, John G. Watson of Menlo Park, Calif., and Jason S. Scott of San Carlos, Calif., have developed a load aware optimization. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process utilizing a modification to the inputs ...
California Inventors Discover Gram-Positive Microorganism
Jul 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 27 -- Eugenio Ferrari and Anita Van Kimmenade, both of Palo Alto, Calif., have discovered gram-positive microorganisms. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to cells that have been genetically manipulated to have an ...
Michigan Inventor Develops Vehicle Engine Operation Adjustment Method
Jul 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 27 -- Michael J. Cullen of Northville, Mich., has developed a vehicle engine controlling method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for utilizing a humidity sensor with an internal combustion engine of a vehicle is described ....
Japanese Inventors Develop Internal Combustion Engine Controller
Jul 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 27 -- Tatsushi Nakashima of Anjo, Japan, and Motoki Ohtani of Toyota, Japan, have developed a device for controlling internal combustion engine. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An engine control unit executes a program including the steps of: ...
California Inventor Develop Communications Device Bit Synchronization System
Jul 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 27 -- Kai Tang of San Diego has developed a communication apparatus. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques are disclosed relating to communications. The systems and techniques involve the synchronizing to a signal having a ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Ring-Shaped Pipe Connector
Jul 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 27 -- Akiyoshi Yamamoto of Chiryu, Japan, Yoshinori Ohmi of Kariya, Japan, Jun Kondo of Gamogori, Japan, and Keizo Jyoko of Okazaki, Japan, have developed a ring-shaped pipe connector. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ring-shaped connecting ...
Alabama Inventors Discover Antithrombin Protein
Jul 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 27 -- Mary S. Cupp and Eddie W. Cupp, both of Auburn, Ala., have discovered an antithrombin protein. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention is drawn to anti-thrombin proteins from the salivary glands of the species, Simulium. Methods for ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Accelerator Pedal Device
Jul 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 27 -- Haruo Meguro of Miyagi, Japan, has developed an accelerator pedal device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An accelerator pedal device is fixed through a housing to a car body. By pedaling on an accelerator pedal arm supported pivotally ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Optical Scanning Device
Jul 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 27 -- Keiichiro Ishihara and Hidekazu Shimomura, both of Kanagawa-ken, Japan, and Hiroshi Sato and Manabu Kato, both of Tochigi-ken, Japan, have developed an optical scanning device for an image forming apparatus. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Internal Combustion Engine Controller
Jul 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 27 -- Shogo Hattori of Kawachi-gun, Japan, has developed an internal combustion engine controller. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control unit calculates a quantity of air that is taken into an engine from an output current from an air flow ...
New Hampshire Inventor Develops Wireless Communications System
Jul 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 27 -- John H. Oates of Amherst, N.H., has developed wireless communications systems. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides methods and apparatus for multiple user detection processing that have application, for example, in ...
California Inventors Develop Laser Printing Method
Jul 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 27 --Clinton B. Carlisle of Palo Alto, Calif., Jahja I. Trisnadi of Cupertino, Calif., David T. Amm of Sunnyvale, Calif., and Anthony A. Abdilla of Campbell, Calif., have developed a laser printing method using a spatial light modulator. According to the U.S ....
California Inventors Develop Recombinant Peptide Production Method
Jul 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 27 -- Marc D. Better of Los Angeles, and Patrick D. Gavit of Covina, Calif., have developed methods for the production of recombinant peptides from bacterial cells, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. 7,247,454 ...
Japanese Inventors Discover Novel Fluorescent Protein
Jul 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 27 -- Atsushi Miyawaki of Wako, Japan, Satoshi Karasawa of Tokyo, and Toshio Araki of Asaka, Japan, have discovered a fluorescent protein. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object of the present invention is to provide a novel fluorescent ...
California Inventors Develop Digital Transceiver
Jul 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 27 -- Charles Chien Newbury Park, Calif., has developed a digital transceiver for use in communication systems. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transceiver includes a switching unit configurable for isolating an input of a receiver from an ...
Canadian Inventors Develop Capsule Making Machine Servo Controller
Jul 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 27 -- Herman Victorov, Toma Tacescu, Corina Calin, Daniela Tacescu, Liviu Marcu and Victor Calin, all from Windsor, Canada, have developed a capsule making machine controller. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An encapsulation machine utilizes ...
Massachusetts, Ohio Inventors Develop Investment Advice System
Jul 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 27 -- Mark Hoffman of Norwell, Mass., Paul Samuelson of Newton, Mass., Evan Schulman of Boston, James L. Walker of Maynard, Mass., and Donald A. McRae of Chagrin Falls, Ohio, have developed an investment advice system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
German Inventors Develop Data Transmission System
Jul 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 27 -- Rainer Bott of Andechs, Germany, and Dimitri Korobkov of Frankfurt, Germany, have developed a frequency hopping method for transmitting data. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a system for transmitting data ...
Michigan Inventors Develop Internal Combustion Engine Operation Control Method
Jul 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 27 -- Tang-Wei Kuo and James A. Eng, both of Troy, Mich., Paul M. Najt of Bloomfield Hills, Mich., and Rodney B. Rask of Grosse Pointe Woods, Mich., have developed an internal combustion engine operating control method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Internal Combustion Engine Control System
Jul 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 27 -- Satoshi Yamaguchi, Mamoru Hasegawa, Naoto Kitayama, Hideki Sakamoto and Yoshihiro Itoh, all from Wako, Japan, have developed an internal combustion engine control system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "control ...
French Inventor Develops Mobile Telecommunication System
Jul 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 27 -- Marian Rudolf of Rennes, France, has developed a method for allocating secondary synchronization codes in mobile telecommunication system. An abstract of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, said: "According to the invention, the ...
Indian, Singapore Inventors Develop Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum Receiver
Jul 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 27 -- Karthik Sathiavageeswaran of Madras, India, Mohamed Imtiyaz Iqbal of Bangalore, India, and Christopher A. Aldridge of Singapore, have developed a low-power code division multiple access receiver. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ...
Georgia Inventors Develop Enterovirus Detection Method
Jul 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 27 -- William Allan Nix of Bethlehem, Ga., and M. Steven Oberste of Lilburn, Ga., have developed a method of detecting an enterovirus (EV) ribonucleic acid sequence in a sample. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are methods of using ...
Arizona Inventor Develops On-Line Interactive System
Jul 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 27 -- Dana B. Duncan of Glendale, Ariz., has developed a method for transacting business over a network. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention includes a method for transacting business over a network between multiple buyers and ...
Arkansas Inventor Develops Scroll Compressor
Jul 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 27 -- Zili Sun of Arkadelphia, Ark., has developed a scroll compressor with slider block. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A scroll compressor has a novel slider block with an upper surface that extends for a greater extent than the prior art ....
Michigan Inventors Develop Diesel Engine Operation Control Method
Jul 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 27 -- Graham Hoare of Northville, Mich., and Gopichandra Surnilla of West Bloomfield, Mich., have developed a diesel engine with differential cylinder group operation. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "method for ...
California Inventors Discover Streptococcus Pyogenes DNase B Leader Peptide
Jul 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 27 -- Craig W Adams of Corona, Calif., Patty P. Y. Pang of Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., and C. Marina Belei of Anaheim, Calif., have discovered a streptococcus (S) pyogenes antibody (DNase B) leader peptide and methods for its use. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
U.S., Canadian Inventors Develop Polymer Extrusion Crosshead Assembly
Jul 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 27 -- John C. Giardina of New Port Richey, Fla., and Prem Anand of Waterloo, Canada, have developed a polymer spiral extrusion forming assembly. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A polymer extrusion crosshead assembly for forming a ...
Massachusetts Inventors Develop Investment Instrument Redeeming Method
Jul 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 27 -- James Benjamin Williams of Sherborn, Mass., and Francois G. Gadenne of Marblehead, Mass., have developed a method of issuing and managing investment instruments. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of issuing and managing investment ...
California Inventor Develops Fucosylated Oligosaccharides Preparation Method
Jul 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 27 -- Eric R. Sjoberg of San Diego has developed fucosylated oligosaccharides preparation method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention provides methods for practical enzymatic conversion of guanosine 5'-diphosphate (GDP)-mannose to ...
Georgia Inventors Develop Credit Management Information Service
Jul 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 27 -- Mark R. Pendleton of Atlanta, and Krishnakumar Srinivasan of Marietta, Ga., have developed a method for offering credit. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is related to a method for issuing a credit card to a customer ...
California Inventors Develop Patty Forming System
Jul 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 27 -- Barett A. St. Germain and Andrew Millson, both of Alameda, Calif., have developed an apparatus for forming patties. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "patty forming system which includes a first generally disc-like ...
Rolls-Royce Naval Marine Wins $50,000 Contract
Jul 27, 2007 ... MECHANICSBURG, Pa., July 27 -- The U.S. Navy has awarded a $50,000 contract to Rolls-Royce Naval Marine Inc., Walpole, Mass., for the repair and modification of ship propeller hubs. The contract was awarded by the Naval Inventory Control Point, Mechanicsburg, Pa. For more ...
Illinois Inventors Develop L-Xylose Production Method
Jul 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 27 -- Wuli Bao of Forsyth, Ill., Leif P. Solheim of Decatur, Ill., and Steven F. Stoddard of Cerro Gordo, Ill., have developed a method of producing L-xylose. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention is drawn to the enzymatic ...
New Jersey Inventors Develop Light Emitting Device
Jul 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 27 -- Boris Leonidovich Volodin of West Windsor, N.J., and Vladimir Sinisa Ban of Princeton, N.J., have developed light-emitting devices. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and methods for altering one or more spectral, spatial, or ...
California Inventors Develop Sub-Pixel Rendering System
Jul 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 27 -- Thomas Lloyd Credelle of Morgan Hill, Calif., and Moon Hwan Im of Cupertino, Calif., have developed a method for improved display viewing angles. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and methods are disclosed for improving the ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Image-Forming Device
Jul 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 27 -- Shogo Suzuki of Nagoya, Japan, has developed an image-forming device with motors feeds. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "motor drive device for driving of a plurality of motors in a proper manner, having a first ...
Canadian Inventors Develop Accounting System Interface Management Apparatus
Jul 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 27 -- David Land and Alan Getgood, both of Mississauga, Canada, have developed a computer program for managing accounting system interfaces. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The accounts receivable system's (ARS) functions are divided into five ...
Arizona Inventors Develop Multi-Jurisdictional Property Tax Information Management System
Jul 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 27 -- Richard D. Nearhood and J. Todd Parker, both of Paradise Valley, Ariz., James A. Subach and J. Scot Crismon, both of Phoenix, and Roger Sabin of Mesa, Ariz., have developed a system for managing multi-jurisdictional property tax information. According to the ...
New Zealand Inventors Develop Linear Compressor
Jul 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 27 -- Lindsey Jack Roke, Ian Campbell McGill, Gerald David Duncan, William George Ferguson and Andrew Paul Taylor, all from Auckland, New Zealand, have developed a linear compressor. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A linear compressor includes ...
California Inventor Develops Three-Dimensional Model Posing Method
Jul 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 27 -- Terran Boylan of Redwood City, Calif., has developed a system for stroke-based posing of three-dimensional models. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A posing system for three-dimensional characters and other models uses a stroke-based ...
Japanese Inventors Develop L-Glutamic Acid Production Process
Jul 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 27 -- Hiroshi Izui, Mika Moriya, Yoshihiko Hara and Hisao Ito, all from Kawasaki, Japan, have developed a L-glutamic acid producing bacterium. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "L-glutamic acid is produced by culturing in a medium a microorganism ...
Arizona Inventor Develops Personal Financial Service Providing Apparatus
Jul 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 27 -- Brian D. Lesk of Scottsdale, Ariz., has developed an apparatus for a personal financial service provider. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems are provided for administering employee funds and transactions utilizing a personal ...
U.S., German Inventors Develop Internal Combustion Engine Valve Train
Jul 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 27 -- William Carter of Macomb, Mich., David Kehr of Dearborn, Mich., and Henning Karbstein of Adelsdorf, Germany, have developed an internal combustion engine valve train. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention proposes a valve train of ...
Massachusetts Inventors Develop Photonic Crystal Microcavity Laser
Jul 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 27 -- Solomon Assefa of Cambridge, Mass., Leslie A. Kolodziekski of Belmont, Mass., and Gale S. Petrich of Arlington, Mass., have developed electrically activated photonic crystal microcavity lasers. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ...
South Korean Inventors Develop Bi-directional Transceiver Module
Jul 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 27 -- Sung Bock and Eundeok Sim, both of Daejeon, South Korea, and Ki Soo Kim of Jeonju, South Korea, have developed a bi-directional transceiver module. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides a bi-directional transceiver module ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Thermal Head with Adhesive Layer
Jul 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 27 -- Tsutomu Takeya and Shigeto Yamada, both of Niigata-ken, Japan, have developed a thermal-transfer printer thermal head. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thermal head has a head substrate including exothermic bodies which generate heat when ...
Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana Inventors Develop Inventory Record Reconciliation Method
Jul 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 27 -- Jeffery O. Burrell of Decatur, Ga., Andy T. Ewing of Atlanta, Susan H. Menkhaus of Alpharetta, Ga., Christopher H. Hymel of Birmingham, Ala., and Carol A. Brechtel of Baton Rouge, La., have developed a central inventory record reconciliation method. According ...
German Inventor Develops Internal Combustion Engine Operating Method
Jul 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 27 -- Dirk Hartmann of Stuttgart, Germany, has developed an internal combustion engine operation method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating an internal combustion engine having a plurality of cylinder banks provides a ...
Georgia Inventors Develop International Cash-On-Delivery System
Jul 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 27 -- Jason D. Alie of Roswell, Ga., and Paul E. Vliek of Dunwoody, Ga., have developed an international cash-on-delivery (I-COD) system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to an "I-COD system for completing a transaction ...
Japanese Inventors Develop General-purpose Engine Automatic Choke Control System
Jul 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 27 -- Yoshihisa Shinogi and Tomoki Fukushima, both of Wako, Japan, have developed a general-purpose engine automatic choke control system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an auto-choke system for a general-purpose engine, it is determined ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Thermal Activation Device
Jul 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 27 -- Minoru Hoshino, Yoshinori Sato, Hiroyuki Kohira, Masanori Takahashi and Tatsuya Obuchi, all from Chiba, Japan, have developed a thermal activation device for a heat-sensitive adhesive layer of a sheet material. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York, Connecticut Inventors Develop Data Processing System
Jul 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 27 -- Gerald Craig Altomare of Saddle River, N.J., Stephen David Reddy of Washington Crossing, Pa., Donald Dong-Whan Sung of New York, and Robert Oliver Young of Cos Cob, Conn., have developed a computer-based method for administering financial ...
New Jersey, Michigan Inventors Develop Thermostable Omega-Transaminase
Jul 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 27 -- Sachin Pannuri of Scotch Plains, N.J., Sanjay Venkatesh Kamat of Kendall Park, N.J., and Abraham Rogelio Martin-Garcia of Houghton, Mich., have developed thermostable omega-transaminases. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Thermostable ...
California Inventors Develop Inventory Planning Scheme
Jul 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 27 -- Steve Kakouros, John J. Neale and Gianpaolo Callioni, all from Palo Alto, Calif., have developed a spot market-based inventory planning scheme. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inventory planning scheme is described in which an optimal ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Internal Combustion Engine Intake Manifold
Jul 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 27 -- Masao Ino of Toyota, Japan, has developed an internal combustion engine intake manifold. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intake manifold is provided to an internal combustion engine including a first and second cylinder heads each ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Image Forming Apparatus
Jul 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 27 -- Yoshikazu Harada and Kyosuke Taka, both of Nara, Japan, Norio Tomita and Nobuo Manabe, both of Yamatokooriyama, Japan, and Toshio Yamanaka of Yao, Japan, have developed an image forming apparatus predetermined adjustment value correcting method. According to ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Thermal Head for Printer
Jul 27, 2007 ... LEXANDRIA, Va., July 27 -- Sunao Okitsu of Niigata-ken, Japan, has developed a thermal head mounted on a thermal transfer printer. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thermal head includes a heat storage layer disposed on a substrate surface by lamination, a plurality ...
Ohio Inventors Develop Fuel Selivery System Cam Ring Bearing
Jul 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 27 -- Martin A. Clements of North Royalton, Ohio, and Robert Nyzen of Chardon, Ohio, have developed a bearing for a fuel delivering system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bearing assembly is provided for a fuel delivery system that includes ...